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[LordCBH]

A lot of people are going to be very pleasantly surprised by performance on Apple silicon.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Starting

 

[eddie4]

this fucking intro music is so cheesy, lol

 

[diffusionx]

I visited their campus once, it's honestly beautiful and I can see why they show it off so much.

this fucking intro music is so cheesy, lol

It's what the kids are listening to these days

 

[eddie4]

M1 Chip incoming

SOC Chip.

5nm size

8-core CPU

8-core GPU

Best CPU performance per watt.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Love transistors.

 

[EviLore]

The 4 low power efficiency cores are as powerful as MacBook Air CPU cores

 

[Maiden Voyage]

2x the power at the same watt is crazy.

2.6 teraflops. Watch out Sony.

 

[EviLore]

2.6 tflop 8 core gpu

 

[eddie4]

Apple claiming fastest integrated GPU.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

The M series of chips are going to be insane in a few years.

 

[eddie4]

 

[eddie4]

Instant wake, just like iphone , etc.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Holy shit. Set the mood for instant wake.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Wtf... Set the mood?

 

[eddie4]

Wtf... Set the mood?

rub on my trackpad to turn me on baby

 

[Trogdor1123]

This could be awesome in an apple tv wow

 

[EviLore]

 

[eddie4]

Universal version of software, such as Adobe

Run any app from iphone/ipad on Mac

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Baldur's Gate 3 call out.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

That's a good looking MacBook Air.

 

[eddie4]

MacBook Air w. M1 is the first.

and it's fanless, dang bro.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Jesus. No fan in the Air.

 

[diffusionx]

no fan, nice

 

[SidViscous]

No fan!!!! Finally

 

[EviLore]

15 hours wireless web browsing
18 hours video playback

 

[eddie4]

Bets on the price anyone? under 2k? 1.5k?

starts at $1k.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

No touchbar this time huh?

 

[Evangelion Unit-01]

RIP anyone who was hoping for a price drop without Intel.

 

[eddie4]

Mac Mini M1

 

[Trogdor1123]

Mac mini looks great

 

[eddie4]

I don't know about all these 5x 10x faster claims. Gonna have to wait for benchmarks yo.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Fanless is incredible...

They really hit it out of the park so far

 

[eddie4]

Mac Mini $699

 

[Trogdor1123]

I don't know about all these 5x 10x faster claims. Gonna have to wait for benchmarks yo.

Probably a good idea, I'm sure it is super biased.

Mac mini costs less... Wow

 

[diffusionx]

I don't know about all these 5x 10x faster claims. Gonna have to wait for benchmarks yo.

Agreed, but if true, my guess is a lot of people at Intel, MS, HP, Lenovo, etc. are reaching for the bottle today.

 

[eddie4]

Here comes the MacBook Pro M1

20 hours video playback.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Here comes the MacBook Pro M1

Yep, the think we will get a new Apple tv?

 

[eddie4]

Yep, the think we will get a new Apple tv?

They could easily use the M1 on the Apple TV

 

[Trogdor1123]

They could easily use the M1 on the Apple TV

I was thinking that too, it was rumored but is it too much right now?

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Yep, the think we will get a new Apple tv?

Rumored for next year.

 

[EviLore]

Two whole ports?

 

[SidViscous]

20 hour battery life.

Intel being shown the door in style

 

[eddie4]

Starts at $1299

 

[MrS]

Buying Pro as soon as the linky goes live. 20 hours of PornHub a day on one charge, thanks Tim.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Nice. BigSur on Thursday.

 

[eddie4]

I'ma have to go check these out in person before i spend some cash on the Pro. Gonna need it for video editing, authoring.

 

[eddie4]

LOL the PC Guy

 

[Maiden Voyage]

No accessories this time. Lmao bringing back PC guy.

 

[diffusionx]

My 2014 MBP needs a new battery which will cost ~$200 but I'm wondering if I am better off just putting that money aside for one of these next year.